And here it's me again with my first post in this thread. Last year I have finished 85 books, my detailed post for 2012 can be found here. I have big plans again for this year - more moving... ...so I guess I won't be able to read just as much. Or maybe I will?

Audiobooks FROM LibriVox for my own entertainment/edification on commutes and during housework:
1. Penguin Island by Anatole France
2. Victory by Lester delRey

Audiobooks FOR LibriVox for my own entertainment/edification and possible that of others:
1. Treatise on Lightby Christiaan Huygens
2. An Irishman's Difficulties with the Dutch Language by Cuey-na-Guel, DPL'ed for Anna Simon
3. Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. Bird
4. Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober by E.T.A. Hoffmann DPL'ed for Karlsson
5. Psyche by Louis Couperus DPL'ed for Marcel Coenders
6. Iracema the Honey Lips by José de Alencar DPL'ed for Leni
7. The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm

Okay, I'll jump in! Around the time I graduated from college (2006), I started keeping a list of every book I finished. I stopped keeping up the list in May of last year (after 800+ entries) since I felt like it was actually taking the fun out of reading - but maybe I'm ready to start up again and this would be a fun place to do it.

Books read in 2013:
1. The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
2. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
3. Boston Noir edited by Dennis Lehane. (My husband got this out of the library. I said to him, did you know I narrated two of the stories in Las Vegas Noir? He had no idea. Sigh.)
4. Albert Nobbs by George Moore. (More of a novella. I saw the movie and was fascinated by it so I wanted to read the original story.)
5. Different Seasons by Stephen King
6. *Year of the King by Antony Sher
7. The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab
8. *Life Among the Savages/Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
9. *Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
10. Machine of Death by various
11. Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
12. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
13. True Grit by Charles Portis
14. Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
15. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
*Reread

Somehow I almost stopped reading recently even though I started several books and in three cases I'm still not done:

"The Psalm Killer" by Chris Petit; a crime story set in Belfast during The Troubles; very interesting read, as well as educational, since the author appended a glossary of real life organizations, people and events appearing in the book.
"Virtual Light" by William Gibson (in Polish translation); I recently started thinking about reading some stuff by "the father of cyberpunk"; they didn't have "Neuromancer" so I picked this one.
I'm still reading my Legamus project book "Brązownicy"; a kind of non-fiction literary detective story in which the author debunks some myths associated with Poland's most celebrated poet and the people around him.

Plus, there are books I PL, of course

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Actual Books:
-Is it Just Me? by Miranda Hart - The funnies book I've ever read!
-Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
-'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays by John Ford (Oxford edition)
-I Used to Know That (Stuff Your Forgot From School) by Caroline Taggart
-Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Penguin Classics)
-Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Penguin Classics)

Last year I read and/or listened to 86 books. My goal last year started at 50, but eventually ended up being 70. I think that my goal this year will be 80, though at Goodreads I set it at 70. We shall see how it goes this time around!

This year I do not have any huge goals, like reading 100 books in a year, which I have done before but I have a few books I want to read Christy, which I am reading now, and there are a few books I started reading and dropped because I had to many going at once, so I want to finish reading 'Gods Smuggler' and 'Hudson Tayler in Early Years the Growth of a Soul' 'A Gardener Looks at the Fruits of the Spirit' and 'The Character of Gods Workman' I also want to do some reading on ships, mostly old sailing ships, and also a little on modern ships. And of corse my loooooong list of novels that I want to read or listen to that is so long it would be useless to list it

Books read or listened to: 81

~ Books listened to LV ~

(dozens of short story's from about 1 hr to 5 min)
- The House by the Lock Alice Muriel Williamson
- Red Arrows in the Night A. Daniel Lord
- The Mysterious Island (a favorite)
- The Mayors Wife by Anna Katherine Green
- The Circular Study by Anna Katherine Green
- The Bronze Hand by Anna Katherine Green
- The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Master of Mysteries by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
- Pearl Maiden by Rider H. Haggard
- Lysbeth, A Tale of the Dutch by Rider H. Haggard
- House of A Thousand Candles by Meredeth Nicholson
- The Red House Mystery A. A. Milne
- The Amateur by Richard Harding Davis
- The Amethyst Box by Anna Katherine Green
- The Shrieking Pit by Arthur Rees
- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
- The Three Muskateers by Alexander Dumas
- Twenty Years Later by Alexander Dumas
- Ten Years Later by Alexander Dumas
- The Uttermost Farthing by R. austin Freeman
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

~ Books listened to not LV ~

BBC radio
- A Small Town murder
- The Last of the Bow Stree Runners
- A Cuckoo in the Nest
- Out on the Drag
- Poirot
- Jane Eyre
- The Coin of Dionysius
- The Kinights Cross Signal Problem
- The Tragedy at Briikbend Cottage
- The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor
- A Game played in the Dark
- The Crooked House
- Little Dorrit
Dramatized audiobooks
- The Wanderer
- The Unexpected Return
- The Captive
- The Boy of Mount Rhigi
- Buried in the Snow
- The Robbers Cave
- Charlie's Choice
- Heinds Feet on High Places

- The Spiritual Life by Andrew Murray
- Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School by Margaret Penrose
- Buttercup Gold and other story's by various authors
- Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
- Links in Rebecca's Life by Pansy
- The Inner Life and the Inner Chamber by Andrew Murray
- The Three Imposters by Arthur Machen
- Queechy by Susan Warner
- A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge
- Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn
- The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Bobs a Girl Detective by Grace May North
- The Christians Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith
- Quintus Oaks by Charles Ross Jackson
- Abominations of Modern Society
- Waiting on God by Andrew Murray
- Anne if Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- The Seven Sleuths' Club by Carol Norton
- A Fair Mystery
- Working for God by Andrew Murray
- The Ladies Book of Etiquette, and Manuel of Politeness by Florence Hartley
- Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley
- Holy in Christ by Andrew Murray
- Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories by Albert Payson Terhune
- Old Wells Dug Out by Thomas Talmage

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~Tiffany

I will be away May 28-June 7 and will catch up on pling when I get back. If anything important comes up during that time please pm me.

”There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away"
– Emily Dickinson

Last year I read and listened to 132 books. Of those 26 were commercial/non LV audiobooks, 75 LV recordings and 31 actual books. (not including the vast number of comic books and all the job related stuff I had to read).
In progress:
Prinz Kaspian von Narnia by C.S. Lewis
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse. My first Mills and Boon: good but probably better if your don't know Psmith, Journalist, which this version has taken big chunks of for reuse. Not as funny as his other stuff, which is the main appeal factor for me in Wodehouse.The Makers of History : Richard II by Jacob Abbott. Again, good. I like the history of lesser kings, though, because I write fantasy stuff myself and I look for ideas to steal. I prefer The Winter King (about a different king, as below) but still worth a list if you like English royal historyThe History of London by Walter Besant : It's a good history, but it's sold through an excellent read.

Audiobooks from others

The Winter King by Thomas Penn. This is about the reign of Nenry VII and the sudden rise to heir by Prince Henry, when his brother Arthur unexpectedly dies. Really interesting if you are inot royal histoies, and well read. Strays a bit into the colloquial.

Physical books

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross. Cthulhu Mythos, MI6 and a guy who can do magic on a computer or mobile phone. This one's a Fleming pastiche which doesn't quite work if you think back over the sequence of events. The twist is a bit dated, and the complaints about PowerPoint are now so widespread as to be no longer funny. Still, it hasa certain style and pace to it that has me knuckling down to read the whole series.

(Also, various children's books. That Sandra Boynton's genius. In other questions: Where is the green sheep; why is the hippo on the roof with cake; and how did this person write Alice in Wonderland into twenty words with illustrations. Why is Sam-I-am so insistent? Is he a sales rep on commission or something?)

I have never kept tabs before, but I will try to do so this year. I certainly don't have a target to aim at.

Books read:Snow Crash by Neal StephensonUn Lun Dun by China MiévilleA Sentimental Traitor by Michael Dobbs (a Harry Jones thriller)Homunculus by James P. Blaylock (Don't bother)Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleMiss Pim's Camouflage by Dorothy StanleyThe Inexplicables by Cherie PriestThe House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (Sherlock Holmes novel)Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (should really have read this before The Inexplicables)Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie PriestThe Scar by China Miéville. Wonderful, just as good as Perdido Street Station.In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson, described by the NYT as "A challenge to an icon-obsessed culture that increasingly is interposing a graphical computer interface between people and the physical world." The man is a seer: this was written in 1999. Everyone should read it.All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell - struggling with this. I am finding it hard to handle all the graphic violence.
ETA I'm afraid I gave up at half-way. The vile and horrible violence was too much for me.Last Call by Tim Powers - weird but very good.Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell - full of killing and other unspeakable things, but so implausible that it makes a highly entertaining read.

LibriVox recordings completed:The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles DickensCleek of Scotland Yard by Thomas HanshewThe Westminster Alice by SakiMy Enemy the Motor: A Tale in Eight Honks and One Crash by Julian Street (for the 8th Anniversary collection)Aristopia by Castello Holford
Stories and carols for the Christmas collections
Articles for Non-fiction collection

Currently recording:Lavengro by George BorrowThe Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle (for Legamus)Utopia by Sir Thomas More (with William Morris foreword)

Very much. It is a wonderfully imagined world with highly-coloured and unusual characters. I'm not a fan of run-of-the-mill fantasy, but this is right up there in my estimation with Stephenson's Anathem, which I wanted never to end. I am looking forward to King Rat, when I can prise it from my son's grasp.

Books what are made of trees:running total: 21
Over Hexed by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Nerds Like It Hot by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Merry Ex-Mas by Sheila Roberts
The Paradise Snare (Han Solo #1) by A. C. Crispin
Nerd in Shining Armor by Vicki Lewis Thompson
*The Princess Bride (Good parts version, edited) by William Goldman
*Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Home From the Sea by Mercedes Lackey
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Elemental Magic by Mervedes Lackey
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
*The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
*Dragon Wing (Death Gate Cycle #1) by Margaret Weis
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
My Nerdy Valentine by Vicki Lewis Thompson
What She Wants by Sheila Roberts
The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl by Gina Lamm